The Arduino ecosystem is an amazing learning tool, but even those of us who love it admit that even the simplified C Arduino ...

[royboy] from the Arduino forum has recently made a post showing off his Arduino / PC ambient light system. The system is simple to wire up and easy to use, as long as your video is being sent from… ...

The Arduino comes pre-programmed with the Firmata sketch for PC Operation, which provides an interface to the Arduino hardware via a serial port for controlling the GPIO and peripherals.

The controls are wired to an Arduino control board that receives button presses and sends serial commands to a PC running a python script.